Sentences with phrase «accepted church practices»

Not exact matches

The Catholic Church teaches that everyone who has a heartfelt religious belief and practices whatever belief it is, accepts Jesus Christ in their own way.

The Report criticises us either for failing to follow the Church's Policies, or for not following what was accepted as good practice by Child Protection Agencies.

I have several gay Christian friends that attend accepting churches, but where the leaders and some in the congregation still hold to a belief that they are sinful for «practicing» their sexuality.

Church leaders stopped its practice, expelling from the Church those who wouldn't accept the Church leadership.

Others think that the church should teach monogamy as the preferred form of marriage relationship but should accept those who practice polygamy.

I also hear from a lot of evangelicals who have begun attending Mainline Protestant churches precisely because they welcome LGBT people, accept scientific findings regarding climate change and evolution, practice traditional worship, preach from the lectionary, affirm women in ministry, etc., but these new attendees never hear the leadership of the church explain why this is the case.

Steps were sure to be taken by the civil magistrates against any individual, church, or minister that deviated from the synod's declarations or advocated something contrary to the generally accepted beliefs or practices.

The 1938 report Doctrine in the Church of England says that «every individual ought to test his or her belief in practice and, so far as his or her ability and training allow, to think out his or her own belief and to distinguish between what has been accepted on authority only and what has been appropriated in thought or experience».23 Such an emphasis has to allow for variety of belief and view within the community.

I also hear from a lot of evangelicals who have begun attending Mainline Protestant churches precisely because they welcome LGBT people, accept science, avoid aligning with a single political party, practice traditional worship, preach from the lectionary, affirm women in ministry, etc. but these new attendees never hear the leadership of the church explain why this is the case.

for every priest that violated his vows and the trust of his parishioners there will someday be a reckoning... true the head always suffers for his members that go astray... but the Brits don't understand the Catholic church if they think that we are going to accept practicing man and females gays into the priesthood and except the pope to issue condoms for the prevention of AID they got something else coming... If the Brits want to live in a perverse society where every thing goes that their moral problem!!

How can the church accept an idea or practice which it had earlier condemned?

So maybe the church my friend attended in the 60's that had vending machines in the lobby, where one could buy sodas and crackers or cookies, which were used for «Communion», wasn't any more «incorrect» in the way they did «Communion» than is the more accepted modern practice!

A Presbyterian pastor who had always served the «unfermented fruit of the vine» (Presbyterians have been encouraged to do so since 1895) accepted a call to a distant church without inquiring about the communion practice there.

«Do you support, affiliate with, or agree with any group or individual whose teachings or practices are contrary to or oppose those accepted by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints?»

Accepting the teachings of the Church, its adherents wanted to bring the practice of the Church into line with its teachings.

Even in the bible with talks of how the early church was to worship, it basically just says that whatever method with which you feel comfortable worshiping, use it to glorify the Lord (within reason, clearly animal sacrifices, etc were no longer accepted practices).

Unethical or religious freedom??? There also seems to be another accepted practice of the Mormon Missionaries and LDS faithful members of baptizing prosepective church members into the LDS faith after only three visits of Book of Mormon and other religious lessons.

The releasing strength and power of the real Redeemer Jesus Christ we receive by the sacramental baptism (Churches believing in sacramental baptism do not practice rebaptism, but accept the one Holy Baptism and a church member can shift the church without being baptized again).

Within a local area, numbers of churches will tacitly accept an ecumenical answer by simply pointing out that «signing» for the deaf is carried on at one or more specific churches in the city, and deaf members in a church where such signing is not practiced are in effect invited to the church where it is, even though that church may be of another denomination.

It is quite staggering how many students do not understand some of the most simple doctrines and liturgical practices and, indeed, do not accept, or feel uncomfortable with the Church's teaching on moral issues.

Though we Christians condemn most evey sin under the sun, the one which the Bible seems to condemn the most — sins of the tongue — seems to be the one which is most accepted and practiced in our churches.

In as much as the Church of North India will have within its membership both persons who practise Infant Baptism in the sincere belief that this is in harmony with the mind of the Lord, and those whose conviction it is that the Sacrament can only properly be administered to a believer, both Infant Baptism and Believer's Baptism shall be accepted as alternative practices in the Church of North India.

This constituency includes persons now repelled by organized religion because they can not accept certain positions (such as opposition to evolutionary theory or to birth - control practice) which they have been exposed to in some churches and which they assume characterize all churches.

Since the practice of homosexuality is incompatible with Christian teaching, self - avowed practicing homosexuals are not to be accepted as candidates, ordained as ministers, or appointed to serve in the United Methodist Church.

Such an idea contradicts the constant practice of the Church in which subsequent teachings of Popes, Councils and the Catechism reiterate, sometimes using different words and expressions, prior non-infallible teachings of Popes (in encyclicals) and other documents to be accepted and authoritatively binding at the appropriate level.

They more or less fit the description «postliberal» in that they accept such mainline practices as historical criticism and women's ordination while wanting the church to exhibit more robust dogmatic commitments.

A friendship with a mature and stable Catholic WOman who is well formed in hER faith, accepting of the church's teachings, and truly practices and lives hER faith.

Exploring the juncture of Church dogma and human sexuality, Blondel seeks to have the viewer reconsider not only the contradictory practices of Catholicism, but the accepted traditions of any organization that has become entrenched in its own beliefs.